News - June 2015

Bryan Beeby with Young Electric Sign Company prepares to attach the "S" to a neon sign at King Storage in downtown Loveland on Monday, Jun 8, 2015. "You don't see signs of this age anymore. especially being restored. It's nice bringing one back to life instead of taking it to the scrap yard," said Beeby while talking about the 23 year-old neon sign. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

A pond formed near Wilson Avenue and Tabernash Drive after heavy rain Thursday, June 11, 2015, in northwest Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Drivers make their way through the Big Thompson Canyon Friday, June 12, 2015, west of Viestenz-Smith Mountain Park. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland mayor Cecil Gutierrez, right, congratulates Duane Wallon, left, a driver with Senior Alternatives in Transportation, for being selected as one of the Loveland Honors volunteers for 2015 on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at the Loveland Police Department. (Photo by Shelley Widhalm)

Jacque Wedding-Scott, the newly hired Loveland Downtown Partnership interim director, center, Mike Scholl, left, and Joe Goacher, chat while checking out a property in downtown Loveland Friday, June 12, 2015, to see if it works as an office space. (Photo by Jenny Sparks,Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Jennifer Eyl is reunited with her dad, Bill Eyl's parrots, Bacall and Bogie, on Friday, June 12, 2015, at the Larimer Humane Society after they survived a tornado that destroyed the Eyl home west of Berthoud. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter Herald)

A ten day-old baby bison runs near his mother and another bison Monday, June 15, 2015, at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The baby, a genetically pure bison born June 5 at CSU, will be part of a herd released on public land on November 1 of this year. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

A mother bison cleans her baby on Monday, June 15, 2015, at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The baby, a genetically pure bison born June 5 at CSU, will be part of a herd released on public land on November 1 of this year. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

What's left of a mobile home after a tornado hit Loveland on June 15, 1965. (File Photo)

Tyler Wildman, left, general manager of Loveland's new CarMax auto dealership, talks Tuesday, June 16, 2015, about the services they offer and how they do business. The dealer ship, at 3760 Byrd Drive in northeast Loveland, open their doors Wednesday. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Jeremy Kern talks Tuesday, June 16, 2015, about how he helped a downstairs neighbor Monday night when he smelled smoke and heard a fire alarm in his apartment complex at 529 E. 13th Street in Loveland. He called 911, used a fire extinguisher to knock down flames and tried to get his neighbor out of his apartment. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

A window looks blackened Tuesday, June 16, 2015, after fire broke out in unit C of this apartment complex at 529 E. 13th Street Monday night, trapping the resident. The upstairs neighbor helped the man try to get out but the smoke was too thick. The Loveland Fire Rescue Authority helped the resident escape and put out the fire. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Robyn Bond pets her papillon, Runa, while working in her garden on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in her Loveland backyard. Bond's garden is one of six on the upcoming Loveland Youth Gardener's 12th annual Garden Tour & Art Show this weekend. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Heliotrope flowers are among many others in Robyn Bond's garden on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in her Loveland backyard. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

A pond, complete with water lilies, in Robyn Bond's garden Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in her Loveland backyard. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Hayley Lightfoot, 8, left, Nisi Cardenas, 8, center, and Thamara Sierra, 8, right, learn choreography to go with a song during a show choir class Wednesday, June 10, 2015, at the Boys and Girls Club of Larimer County in Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Harold Tolsma, an employee at Rocky Mountain Sharp Shop and former co-owner, sharpens a stump-grinding bit at the Loveland shop Tuesday, June 16, 2015. (Photo by Craig Young/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Paul Dudley, the new owner of Rocky Mountain Sharp Shop at 1054 N. Denver Ave., Loveland, poses Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in the workshop of his business. (Photo by Craig Young/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Large railroad rail-cutting saw blades are just one of the many tools that Loveland's Rocky Mountain Sharp Shop can sharpen. (Photo by Craig Young/ Loveland Reporter-Herald, 6/16/15)

George Deenee, right, talks with Jhandery Martinez, a senior services program case worker with Catholic Charities Senior Outreach, about his needs as they sit in the living room of his Loveland home on Wednesday, June 17, 2015. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

"It was sugar stupid" spray painted on a building at the old sugar factory, seen Friday, June 19, 2015, refers to the dropped charges against Jeremy Myers. Myers was accused on drug charges after police seized a substance that initially field tested positive for meth in 2007 but turned out to be sugar. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Megan Hoover, 9, right, plays a game with her mom Allison, left, as her dad Keith watches Monday, June 22, 2015, at her Loveland home. Doctors suspect that Megan has Mitochondrial Disease which has left her wheelchair bound since spring 2014. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Shannon Gaes, Taylor Gaes father, talks Tuesday, June 23, 2015, about how much Taylor loved baseball during a press conference in Fort Collins. Taylor Gaes died just a day after his sixteenth birthday on June 8 from Septicemic Plague. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Luc Phan of Loveland looks out at the rushing Big Thompson River Monday, June 22, 2015, at Fairgrounds Park in Loveland. Steps leading down to the river, where people usually swim this time of year, are fenced off and partially under water. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

David Moore, Public information officer for the Northern Colorado Task Force, talks Tuesday, June 23, 2015, about a vehicle of interest in recent Loveland shootings. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

David Moore, Public information officer for the Northern Colorado Task Force, talks Tuesday, June 23, 2015, to members of the media about a vehicle of interest in recent Loveland shootings. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

A chihuahua named Pinky sits in a basket on her owner, Maryan Justus' bicycle, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, as the eighty three year-old cyclist stops at the Bike to Work station at Faith Evangelical Church on north Wilson Avenue in Loveland. Justus said that from the minute she wakes up in the morning Pinky is excited for a bike ride. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Bob Midland, left, and Alan Strand ride their bikes to work at Group Publishing Wednesday, June 24, 2015, on Wilson Avenue in Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

John and Donnice Cochenour ride their tandem bicycle Wednesday, June 24, 2015, after stopping at the Bike to Work station at Faith Evangelical Church on north Wilson Avenue in Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Mike Reikofski, far right, waves to cars and cyclists with his grandkids, Tsega Keefer, 5, right, and Abenezer Keefer, 12, left, on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, from the Bike to Work station at Faith Evangelical Church on north Wilson Avenue in Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

David Ahrens, right, gets a banana from Sharon Reikofski, left, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, at the Bike to Work station at Faith Evangelical Church on north Wilson Avenue in Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Boyd Lake Marina employee Steve Deines, right, gets a hug from Robin Skoog, concessionary at the marina, after Deines used a dingy to ram a boat that was on fire to get it away from the marina and two large gasoline tanks Friday, June 26, 2015, at Boyd Lake State Park in Loveland. Witnesses of the incident called Deines a hero. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Shelby Gordley, customer service representative at the Loveland PetSmart, holds Clove, a domestic shorthair from the Larimer Humane Society that came from another shelter in Merced County, Calif., to help with overflow there. (Photo taken Thursday, June 25, 2015 by Shelley Widhalm)

FBI Evidence Response Team members use metal detectors and look through the grass for evidence on their hands and knees Thursday, June 25, 2015, at Allendale Park near 18th Street and Chelsea Drive in east Loveland. The Northern Colorado Taks Force was investigating a lead in the Loveland shootings. (Photo by JEnny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

FBI Evidence Response Team members comb for evidence Thursday, June 25, 2015, on 18th Street and Chelsea Drive in east Loveland. The Northern Colorado Taks Force was investigating a lead in the Loveland shootings. (Photo by JEnny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

FBI Evidence Response Team members take photos of evidence Thursday, June 25, 2015, on 18th Street near Chelsea Drive in east Loveland. The Northern Colorado Taks Force was investigating a lead in the Loveland shootings. (Photo by JEnny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

FBI Evidence Response Team members comb through mulch for evidence Thursday, June 25, 2015, at Allendale Park in east Loveland. The Northern Colorado Taks Force was investigating a lead in the Loveland shootings. (Photo by JEnny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

FBI Evidence Response Team members comb for evidence Thursday, June 25, 2015, on 18th Street and Chelsea Drive in east Loveland. The Northern Colorado Taks Force was investigating a lead in the Loveland shootings. (Photo by JEnny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Miss Colorado Cinderella Tot, Ciara Sauter of Loveland, 6, right, talks Wednesday, June 24, 2015, with Chrissy French, left, owner of the Cactus Grill, about her upcoming Cinderella International Pageant while out with her family trying to get sponsors for the trip. Ciara's sister, Brooklyn Sauter, 8, back right, and Heather Haigh, back left, manager at Cactus Grill, listen to them chat. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Teri Johnson, museum curator of the Timberlane Farm Museum, demonstrates Friday, June 26, 2015, some of the lessons she'll be teaching during the first weeklong History Time Traveler Camp offered there in mid-July and early August. (Photo by Shelley Widhalm / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Caleb Hobbs, manager at Olde Glory Fireworks, talks Friday, June 26, 2015, about some of the popular items available at the stand near Eisenhower Boulevard and Madison Avenue in Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland Fire Rescue Authority Cpt. John Davis, left, and firefighter Neil Ferrell test a nozzle on their fire hose that sprays a mist Monday, June 27, 2015, at the Loveland Fire & Rescue Training Facility. The mist is used to cool the atmosphere, which allows the firefighters to cool the smoke before it turns to flames. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Firefighters use a fog nail nozzle while testing firefighting tactics Monday, June 27, 2015, at the Loveland Fire & Rescue Training Facility. The fog nails allow the firefighters to put water on a fire without adding oxygen because it is punctured through a wall, allowing no air to enter. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland Fire Rescue Authority firefighters put water on a house fire Tuesday, June 28, 2015, 4177 Rockvale Drive in northwest Loveland. A propane grill started the fire which extended into the house, no animals or people were home. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Smoke pours out the front door of a home Tuesday, June 30, 2015, at 4177 Rockvale Drive in northwest Loveland as Loveland Fire Rescue Authority firefighters work to extinguish the fire. A propane grill started the fire which extended into the house. No animals or people were home. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Liberty Kay Bradbury races down a hill by the Norma and Lynn Hammond Amphitheater on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, while her sister, Liza Bradbury, looks on behind her. Liberty is running in the Loveland Liberty 5K for the third time on July 4 with her family. (Photo by Jenny Sparks)